Virtualization Engineer
NuAxis Innovations (National Park Service) Washington, DC
- Assisted customers with resolving their application errors, critical vulnerabilities and overall performance issues
- working with various customers in the agency to consolidate their servers and applications as part of a government DCOI initiative
- Worked on creating a Windows Server 2016 baseline image by working with Security team to remediate security vulnerabilities base on DISA STIG
- Worked on a Datacenter migration project that involved moving the complete network and server infrastructure from one location to another which involved a cabling plan, rack elevations, and procurement to build out the data center
- Setup Hyper-V replication between two sites for critical systems in order to maintain offsite fail-over capability
- Setup and managed multiple Hyper-V clusters for hosting VDI desktops, production Windows 2008\2012 and Linux virtual servers.
- Built and configured System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) 2012 server and designed logical network infrastructure to setup a Private Cloud
- Setup and managed highly available load-balanced Remote Desktop Session Host farms (Terminal Servers) for Shared Desktop use
- Managed, upgraded, and maintained several SolarWinds applications servers Network Performance Monitor, NetFlow Traffic Analyzer, Network Configuration Manager, Server & Application Monitor, Storage Manager and Virtualization Manager
- Managed and administered Backups using Veeam for VM Backups and Replication
- Worked on a migration project to upgrade a Hyper-V cluster from 2008 R2 to 2012 R2
- Installed and configured Symantec EndPoint Protection (SEP) Antivirus on several servers from centralized console while working with the security team. Applied Exclusions policis to the Hyper-V cluster storage
- Accessed and managed a domain level OU involving servers, virtual desktops and service accounts
- Managed, maintained and setup several Hyper-V Host servers on a Windows Server 2012 cluster
- Maintained, and monitored server hardware Using Dell OpenManage, Lifecycle Controller (UEFI) as well as iDRAC (out of band)
- Functioned as a team member in a Data Center operations support team and after hours on-call support
- Trained and mentored new team members on the Virtualization environment and Data Center infrastructure
- Administered and performed upgrades on Dell Equallogics and Compellent SAN. Carved out storage space in the form of Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV) to customers
- Worked with Cisco and Dell For 10 Switches for configuring ports and VLANs as well as performing maintenance on them
- Applied Powershell and SQL scripts to resolve issues with Systems center applications, virtualization, and to automate processes
- Applied wild card certificates to internal websites
- Worked on hardening and mitigating Nexus Cisco switches based on Tenable security scans
- Assisted the Help-desk team with customers move which involved setting up switches and virtual file and print servers